Green Thing film competition

Entries Tagged as 'Environmental cost of meat'

Green Thing film competition

August 7th, 2008 · No Comments

So you are a student, you like to be green and make films? So here’s an opportunity for you.

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Tags: miscellaneous · Green consumption · Environmental cost of meat · Aviation

For the ‘Almost Vegetarians’

June 13th, 2008 · No Comments


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Tags: environment · global warming · Carbon emissions · Food · Environmental cost of meat · Carbon footprint

Vegetarianism and climate change

June 4th, 2008 · No Comments

One of the most respected discussion programs on the BBC, Newsnight, focused last night on the statement made by Yvi de Boer, the head of the UN climate agency, who recently said: “The best solution would be for us all to become vegetarians”. The UN official was responding to criticism that measures to tackle climate […]

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Tags: global warming · Environmental cost of meat

Plant trees to offset your carbon footprint

May 19th, 2008 · No Comments

There are many things you can do to mitigate your impact on the environment and climate change: cycling to work, consuming less, avoiding airplanes, sharing car rides, removing meat from the diet, saving electricity, recycling, buying organic produce etc. The list goes on. In my last blog I wrote about the departure of the Brazilian […]

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Tags: Climate change · Carbon emissions · Cycling · Environmental cost of meat · Carbon footprint

The Pope and the environment

April 18th, 2008 · No Comments

Pope Benedict’s visit to America, home to 66 million Catholics, has been generating a great deal of press. It’s great to see the focus he’s been putting on environmental and animal welfare issues, regardless of the restrictions I personally have with the Catholic church in other areas. But that’s the nature of politics: differing views […]

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Tags: global warming · green politics · Environmental cost of meat